Lining for barrels or similar receptacles.



Patented Apr. 29, I902.

F. L. BLANCHABD.

LINING FUR BARRELS 0R SIMILAR RECEPTACLES.

(Application filed June 19, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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' UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

FRANCIS LORING BLANGI-IARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE ARKELL SAFETY BAG ZOMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORA- TION OF NEW YORK.

\ LINING FOR BARRELS OR SIMILAR RECEPTACLES.

SPECIFICATION. formingpart of Letters Patent No. 698,790, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed June 19, 1900. Serial No. 20,827. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beitknown that LERANcIsLoRINeBLAnoH- ARD, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and'useful Improvements in Linings for Barrels or Similar Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in linings for barrels and similar receptacles, especially those having cylindrical or curved sides, the object being to provide a lining having a closed bottom shaped to the contour of the receptacle, so that it may be quickly inserted in place in substantial conformity with the interior of the receptacle and remain so during the filling thereof.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view of my improved lining. Fig. 2 is a perspective view thereof, showing the side and bottom with their uniting-seams. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the lining. Fig. 4 is a side view of the lining, showing it in proper position in a barrel preparatory to filling, the barrel being shown in longitudinal section. Fig. 5 is a similar side view showing the barrel filled. The front side of the'lining is in this view shown to be torn away, so as to show the way in which it conforms to the interior surface of the barrel. Fig. 6 is a side view of the barrel and lining of Figs. 4 and 5, showing the lining closed and the barrel headed up, the barrel being-shown in longitudinal section. Fig. 7 is an enlarged fragmentary view showing the preferred form of the seam employed for uniting the meeting edges of the side and bottom of the lining. Fig. 8 is a similar fragmentary view illustrating the manner in which the seam of Fig. 7 is adapted to the corner of a barrel.

The linings hitherto known and used for this purpose required considerable time'and skill to adjust them into even substantial coincidence with the interior of the barrel, the sides being liable to become displaced during the subsequent filling thereof. Unless thus carefully adjusted or if subsequently displaced the linings become bunched or distorted, so as to form pockets between the lining and the barrel. These portions of the lining being unsupported by the side of the barrel are liable to be burst by the subsequent pressure of the material. This liability can hardly be guarded against evenby the utmost care on the part of the user and cannot be detected after the barrel is wholly or partly filled. Thus the rupture of the lining from this cause may often take place after the barrel is filled or during the subsequent handling or transportation. These difficulties are obviated inthe present invention by making the body and bottom in separate pieces and shaping and uniting their meeting edges by a seam, so that the resulting corner will substantially conform with the corresponding interior corner of the barrel or receptacle. V

This invention is herein shown and described as being embodied in a lining for an ordinary barrel 10. This lining consists of two partsthe body 11 and the bottom 12. These are made of paper or similar material, which is wrinkled or corrugated to a sufficient extent to provide suitable fullness and elasticity to allow for slight variation in the size of the receptacles. When employed for the lining of barrels, this fullness of the material composing the body should be sufficient to enable the cylindrical body ll to accommodate itself-to the bilge or swell of the sides of the barrel when'filled, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. These'bodies are also madelong enough to be folded down, and thus cover the top of the material after the barrel has been filled, as shown in Fig. 6. The longitudinal seam 13 of the body 11 of this lining is secured by stitching the meeting edges together, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The bottom 12 is substantially of the out line of the bottom of the receptacle to be lined,

but is made enough larger to provide a suit-- able seam for attachment to the lower edges of the body 11, so that the outside of that seam when completed will substantially con form to the bottom cornerof the barrel, as shown in Fig. 8. The preferred form of'this seam 16 is shown in Fig. 7, both meeting edges being doubled together and secured by the stitch 15, forming a rib or welt, which adds both to the strength and the stability of the completed structure and renders more certain the proper placing of the lining with relation to the barrel, even when more or less carelessly inserted. This seam also insures the proper settling of the lining, and especially of these corners, to their proper place as the barrel is filled with material, since they prevent the formation of the pockets above referred to and since this seam defines the proper area of the bottom and maintains the proper angular relation between the side and the bottom.

In employing these linings they are inserted in the barrel, as shown in Fig. 4, this improved construction causing them to take the proper position without the exercise of special care or skill on the part of the operative. The lining is then filled with the desired material, as shown in Fig. 5, 'up to the capacity of the barrel, after which the upper portion of the bodies 11 are folded down upon the top of the material and the cover or barrel-head 1 L fastened in, as shown in Fig. 6.

The seam 16 may be secured somewhat loosely by the thread, and thus alford a considerable degree of elasticity or expansibility in addition toor instead of that afforded by the use of elastic or expansible material, while the welt or rib formed by the seam shown in Figs. 7 and 8 defines and maintains the bottom area and its angular relationto the side substantiallyin accordance with the ter of the material employed for this lining enables it to be readily collapsed and folded in a flat condition for packing and transportation in any desired way or to any desired extent, and it needs only to be opened like an ordinary bag to be ready for insertion in the barrel or receptacle as a complete and integral lining.

I claim as my invention- 1. An expansible lining for barrels and similar receptacles, made of paper, and rendered elastic by crinkling or corrugating, and consisting of a body, and of a bottom united with the body bya sewed seam which is substantially coincident with the contour of the bottom corner of the barrel to form a closed lining having a fiat bottom.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a collapsible, elastic lining'for barrels and similar receptacles, made of paper rendered elastic by crinkling or corrugating, and consisting of a body and of a flat closed bottom united with the body by a loosely-sewed seam, which is substantially coincident with the contour of the bottom corner of the barrel or receptacle. Signed at New York city this 11th day of June, 1900.

FRANCIS LORING BLANCIIARD. Witnesses:

JOHN H. STOUTENBURGH, E. M E. (JooLEY. 

